X-Window from the 80s… Are you trying to give us PTSD flashbacks? Let’s see how many of these words sound familiar: Xinerama, Zaphod, XRandR. Not to mention n

X-Window from the 80s… Are you trying to give us PTSD flashbacks? Let’s see how many of these words sound familiar: Xinerama, Zaphod, XRandR. Not to mention network transparency. So slow, so fragile, so never ever going to support audio or USB devices or video acceleration. I see Microsoft RDP and I weep. I wonder how the Sun Ray protocol compares. Moving processes is possible, though impractical when devices have different processors. See the enduring appeal of things like Continuum for smartphones. Moving just parts of application state, like Apple’s Continuity, tends to have vendor lock-in and third-party adoption issues. So, similar problems as what a practical IoT ecosystem faces.